Word: collections
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...That impression may be accurate. The New York Times reported Friday that 668,018 delinquent taxpayers (up from 98 in 1998) have had their cases sent to an inactive file since the new-look IRS decided in June 1999 not to try to collect their debts. Cost, for 1999 alone: $2.5 billion...
...just something I put up," he said. "If people wanted to collect emails, there are much easier ways...
...however, the chances looked considerably better; the two sides agreed to increase the amount of hard money individuals could give candidates and parties, and that compromise paved the way for the historic vote to ban the unlimited soft-money donations that parties could collect from corporations, unions and the wealthy. By the end of the week the Arizona Senator, his sidekick, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and their merry band of china breakers actually had victory in sight--a victory that could lead to the most dramatic campaign-finance overhaul since the post-Watergate reforms of 1974. McCain-Feingold's reforms...
...their campaign ads. Although most observers said the change was minor, Don Nickles of Oklahoma called it "a major gift to politicians." (It also stirred up the powerful broadcasting lobby, which could be hazardous to the bill's long-term health.) The second amendment would allow Senators to collect larger donations if they found themselves running against a rich opponent willing to spend his or her own money. That is the ultimate nightmare for many lawmakers, who need think only of former Senators Slade Gorton and Rod Grams, who lost last year to millionaire challengers (and now freshman Senators) Maria...
...know these developments must be reaching critical mass when two museums decide simultaneously to look into them. "BitStreams" at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City and "010101: Art in Technological Times" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are Zeitgeist shows, attempts to collect a few specimens of this emerging practice and let them vibrate in proximity to one another. There is not much effort in either exhibit to draw broad conclusions, no gathering of everybody into schools or "isms." The spirit behind both is to let a thousand digits bloom...